The effects of mental representation on performance in a navigation task.
In three experiments, we investigated the mental representations employed when instructions were followed that involved navigation in a space displayed as a grid on a computer screen. Performance was affected much more by the number of instructional units than by the number of words per unit. Perfor...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 30; no. 8; pp. 1189 - 1204 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
December 2002
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